(TELEGRAPH) — It is a phenomenon that
is on the rise throughout the world: The number of cases of demonic
possession – and demands for priests to carry out exorcisms – is,
according to multiple sources, soaring.
Medical science remains sceptical. However, a Princeton-and-Yale-educated mainstream psychiatrist believes demonic possession is indeed very real – and claims that the majority of Americans agree with him.
With 25 years experience in a private psychiatric practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, Dr Richard Gallagher has a rare vantage point to observe human behavior. And then there is the inhuman.
Read more here.
Medical science remains sceptical. However, a Princeton-and-Yale-educated mainstream psychiatrist believes demonic possession is indeed very real – and claims that the majority of Americans agree with him.
With 25 years experience in a private psychiatric practice and as a professor at New York Medical College and Columbia University, Dr Richard Gallagher has a rare vantage point to observe human behavior. And then there is the inhuman.
Gallagher
He
is also a sought-after psychiatrist for discernment, the initial step
in determining the need for exorcism. Dr Gallagher has evaluated
hundreds of cases of possible possession and, in a wide-ranging and rare
interview with the Telegraph, explains why he believes the phenomenon
is genuine.
In April, at a
Vatican training course for exorcist priests, participants were told
that demand for exorcism is booming as a result of a decline in
Christian faith and the internet providing easy access to black magic, the occult and Satanism.
Read more here.
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